All going well, the predictions in this article will show us to be geniuses. Otherwise we’ll just delete it and nobody will suspect a thing.
Jones the ball: the Darren Anderton of cricket.
Considering Devereux’s shock absence, there was a surprising lack of outrage at Australia’s Ashes squad. Probably because after what Gayle did to Pune we are just broken, emotionless husks, unable to feel shocked by anything.
Today’s article is about a ladder with one rung. Well, two if you count Devereux.
Struggling for inspiration with no cricket to watch on the telly? Well we can’t really help there, but we can at least hopefully stoke your enthusiasm about what the next few months hold in store.
England were 2-1 up with one to play. Bet you can’t guess what happened next?
The Chinese, Vietnamese, the Korean and the Japanese are superstitious about the number four because it is a homonym for “death” in their languages. The fourth game of the 2005 series wasn’t far off backing that up.
With the series level at 1-1, both sides headed to Manchester with ASHES FEVER in full swing. Either that or being so far North was bringing everyone out in a rash.
Up the M40 to Edgbaston went the travelling Ashes caravan.
A whole week of reminiscing about the greatest series in the history of the game starts, like all the great stories, with England getting a right shellacking.